Bayard Newswire

The Bayard City Council tabled a franchise agreement with WNM Communications at their meeting on Monday, unsure of the amount of authority the language in the agreement offered the local communications conglomerate. The council also talked plans for one of the city's Copper Little League baseball fields and its wastewater treatment plant.
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Not just for riders, the Tommyknocker was enjoyed by all, including this good-looking fella, who was just relaxing and taking in the scene. The Servis Corral trailhead at Fort Bayard was transformed into a mini village this weekend, with RVs, campers, and colorful tents spread out on Forest Service land, surrounded by the rolling green hills of the Gila with folks in town for the Tommyknocker10.
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Santa Clara candidates Olga Amador and Thomas Caddel check the election results outside of Village Hall in Santa Clara on Tuesday. Amador and Harry "Rocky" Hildebrand edged out Thomas Caddel for two seats on the board of trustees.
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Voting is slow but steady across municipalities in Grant County, from Hurley to Silver City, where there are contested races in each community. The polls close at 7 p.m. for all four municipalities.
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Grant County municipalities saw a run-of-the-mill turnout for their mayoral, legislative and judiciary elections in early voting, which ended Friday. Election day for each municipality's various races is Tuesday.
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Maia Mesa sketches a ring-tailed cat on Monday at Snell Middle School. A ring-tailed cat lived inside the school's library ceiling for weeks until it was caught Feb. 13 and released into the Black Range the following day.
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Four of the five candidates running for two open seats on the Bayard City Council laid out their vision and solutions to problems in the community at Thursday's Silver City Daily Press candidate forum at the Bayard Community Center. Candidates delved into topics such as recruitment and retention both for law enforcement and volunteers in the community, school shooting preparedness, economic development and effluent water possibilities.
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The three candidates for the Municipal Court judge seat in Bayard answered questions about their backgrounds and their views on how they would run the court at a Daily Press hosted candidate forum at the Bayard Community Center on Thursday night. Incumbent Judge Jose Sandoval faces two challengers to his seat this time around, one familiar face to the people of Bayard and one less familiar - current Bayard Mayor Charles Kelly and newcomer Ricardo Aguirre, a former Bayard resident who returned after years away.
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It is time once again for the Silver City Daily Press' regular candidate forums. The forums will take place over the next two weeks as candidates for municipal races across Grant County move door to door to garner support.
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Hurley town councilors hired two new police officers Tuesday, after the town's sole officer - other than the chief - left to go work for the Bayard Police Department last week. Nicholas Rosales had been working for the Hurley Department for three and a half months before being hired on by Bayard on Monday.
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The Grant County Commission debated making official statements on national issues such as U.S. President Donald Trump's long-promised wall along the U.S. .. By ROBERTA BROWN Daily Press Correspondent Part cafA , art gallery, music venue, and literary salon, less than a year after opening, Tranquilbuzz has established ..
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For those Grant County residents living within its four incorporated municipalities of Hurley, Bayard, Santa Clara and Silver City, tomorrow is the deadline to register to vote in your municipal elections. According to Robert Zamarripa, document specialist for the Grant County Clerk's office, folks can either visit the Grant County Clerk's office, at 1400 Highway 180 E, or visit the county's website, at , between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. to register to vote or change their registered address.
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Grant County's legislative delegation in Santa Fe has split regarding the future of the millions of dollars currently being held in the New Mexico Unit Fund and used by various agencies to plan and assess the diversion of the Gila River and its tributaries. Several bills have been introduced by Grant County legislators this year to either siphon money away from or support the proposed diversion.
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Roundhouse regulars may notice some new faces in the Capitol today, as leaders from Grant County, in southwest New Mexico, descend upon Santa Fe for the annual Grant County Day. Each year, the Grant County Prospectors, a group of area business leaders, gather at the Capitol to educate policymakers on behalf of local governments, educators, health care providers and more.
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As legislators begin work on the state budget for fiscal year 2019, a bill sits awaiting assignment to its committees that would transfer ownership of the historic Fort Bayard property from the state government to the village of Santa Clara or a partnership it may yet form. This bill, sponsored by District 28 Sen. Howie Morales, would open the door for the village and the Fort Bayard Historic Preservation Society to expand the restoration work of the buildings left so long to decay by the state government.
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The Cobre Consolidated School District saw some changes this past year, the largest one being the shift to a four-day school week beginning in September after approval by the board. Other changes include a new board member in Gilbert Guadiana, who beat out Eloy Medina in the only contested race in that district.
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A number of people turned out to share their concerns about ATVs riding in the San Vicente Creek and trash along the roadways at the town of Silver City's regular meeting Tuesday night. Anita Williams, a three-year resident of Silver City, said she was concerned about the trash along the roadway from Bayard to Silver City.
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Silver City Town Clerk Ann Mackie stamps Timothy Montes' declaration of candidacy to run for mayor at 4:59 p.m. - just one minute before deadline - on filing day Tuesday. Candidates for seats on the county's municipal governments are off and running after filing day for open mayor, council and municipal judge spots on Tuesday.
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The Grant County Commission has added two high-profile actions to the agenda for their meeting on Thursday - one regarding the village of Santa Clara's attempts to gain control of Fort Bayard, one regarding the draft wilderness inventory of the Gila National Forest's ongoing Forest Plan Revision process. Neither of these appeared on the agenda attached to the legal notice for Thursday's meeting.
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The Bayard City Council moved forward with plans to improve their wastewater treatment plant, and gave their perspective on other bodies' plans for the effluent water they produce, at their meeting Monday. There, they also disciplined a Bayard police officer with a demotion, probation and cut in pay.
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